"At the risk of overexposing myself, again, or being inappropriate, again, I thought I might share with you why I am doing this."

The longtime supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals then explained, "I did not have an easy childhood. Despite loving parents, I was molested from age 6 by a female baby-sitter. I went to her boyfriend's house, and his older brother decided to teach me backgammon, which led into a back massage, which led into rape -- my first heterosexual experience. He was 25 years old and I was 12."

Anderson went on to describe how sometime later her first boyfriend "decided it would be funny to gang rape me with six friends. I wanted off this Earth. This meant I had a hard time trusting humans."

Fortunately, she explained, "My affinity with animals saved me. They came to me naturally . . . My loyalty remained with the animal kingdom and I vowed to protect them and only them. I prayed to the whales with my feet in the ocean, my only real friends until I had children."